These are the faces of some of the criminals put behind bars this week.

They include a man jailed for life after ‘battering’ an Oldham paramedic to death, a pair of bungling bank raiders caught after a stolen ATM fell out the back of their getaway van and a rapist convicted three decades after a horrific attack on a young mum thanks to breakthroughs in DNA technology.

Thug described his attack to 999 operators

James Morgan has been jailed for seven years

First up is a thug who gave 999 operators a sick ‘running commentary’ as he punched a frail pensioner unconscious.

The 38-year-old subjected his sister’s 66-year-old partner to a savage beating in his own home because he forgot to wish her happy birthday, describing the blows he was inflicting to the operators during the 2014 attack in Blackley.

Rapist finally brought to justice

In January 1984, Henry Drennan broke into the north Manchester home of a young mum and raped her as her young child slept in the next room.

Drennan, now 58, was living in Glasgow when police caught up with him and was jailed for 10 years.

ATM thieves... and pigeon plotters

Jamie Ronald Keegan (L) and Marc Andrew Shelton

Jamie Ronald Keegan and Marc Andrew Shelton, both 33, who were sentenced to 40 months after stealing an ATM from a bank in Sale in December 2015.

They were subsequently caught after the cash machine – which was empty – fell from the back of their getaway van during a chase by police.

The men, who live in Sale, were also sentenced to six months for a burglary with intent to cause damage in North Wales where they had planned to let off pigeons into a motorcycle shop to defecate inside.